> On Sep 28, 2015, at 16:48 , Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 16:43 , Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Robert, do you think it would be possible to write a bash script that 
>>>> could "preflight" uEnv.txt to let you know if it would successfully boot? 
>>>> More than once this weekend, while trying to downgrade to 3.8, I left 
>>>> uEnv.txt in a bad state and U-boot couldn't continue. It seems that all 
>>>> those mistakes could've been caught by a script before booting.
>>>> 
>>>> I just don't know how easy it would be to maintain such a script, as 
>>>> U-boot changed, it would have to change.
>>> 
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> 
>>> . /boot/uEnv.txt
>>> 
>>> if [ ! -d "/boot/dtbs/${uname_r}/" ] ; then
>>>  echo "invalid uname_r in /boot/uEnv.txt"
>>> fi
>> 
>> Heh, it's more than that. For example, I had a dtb= set that it couldn't 
>> find, so it choked on that. I also have to remember to switch between 
>> 3.8-style capemgr enable/disable and 4.1-style. Those kinds of things.
> 
> then add:
> 
> if [ ! "x${dtb}" = "x" ] ; then
> if [ ! -f /boot/dtbs/${uname_r}/${dtb} ] ; then
> echo error
> fi
> fi
> 
>> I might try to figure something out. Is it possible to get at the U-boot 
>> environment (bootcmd, find_ftd, uname_boot, etc?) from the logged-in bash 
>> shell after boot is complete?
> 
> For awhile i was defaulting to the default *.dtb when a dtb lookup
> failed, but then a user couldn't understand why his "dtb=" override
> wasn't working.. right now i just default to "umsboot" to give you
> full eMMC access over otg to fix it..

Which is great, but I can't get it to work, and wouldn't help in my current 
situation (I'm at work, the BBB is at home, and I'm logging in remotely :-) ).

I can build a script that mimics the steps U-boot goes through and emits errors 
for things, but I thought it could be made more accurate if it could look at 
the current U-boot environment.

-- 
Rick Mann
[email protected]


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